Current: Davis is finally seeing his production match his potential, and the Raptors are now one of the NBA's hottest teams since he has moved into the starting lineup. Davis has real talent to "feel" out a defense's weaknesses and earn easy baskets by moving to the perfect spot on the floor. He gets a lot of dunks this way, and he finishes a high rate of his non-dunks too. Davis works at rebounding every shot, and does so effectively, while making very few mistakes with the ball. -- Thorpe

Future: With his performance over the past month, Davis has earned the right to stay in the starting lineup after Andrea Bargnani returns, and he might not give up that role for years. Strength remains an issue for the rail-thin Davis, especially in terms of defending the post. MySynergySports.com ranks him 124th out of 152 qualified players in points allowed per post-up. -- Pelton

he has a terrible WARP, though i have no idea what it measures exactly.

cousins should be top 5. i like kevin love but i get sick of the media blowing him. zach randolph use to put up some phenominal numers as a blazer, but the media dismissed it and said, "he's just a guy padding hi stats on a bad team." has kevin love ever made the playoffs?

cousins should be top 5. i like kevin love but i get sick of the media blowing him. zach randolph use to put up some phenominal numers as a blazer, but the media dismissed it and said, "he's just a guy padding hi stats on a bad team." has kevin love ever made the playoffs?

the same thing can be said about jamal crawford also, seems people only give you ratings if you are on a good team or not

I love some of the guys on that list but if you can see the whole article, it is based on this year. If you look hard at those players, very few have had such an immediate impact on their team just simply due to increased playing time like ED has....

Of course ESPN doesn't connect that just removing Bargnani from the starting lineup in itself is a plus but we don't have to go there.....

I love some of the guys on that list but if you can see the whole article, it is based on this year. If you look hard at those players, very few have had such an immediate impact on their team just simply due to increased playing time like ED has....

Of course ESPN doesn't connect that just removing Bargnani from the starting lineup in itself is a plus but we don't have to go there.....

If the list is based on this year's stats only, it still does not address the issue that many players from the second list are having a better year than Ed Davis, DeAndre Jordan, and Eric Bledsoe to name a few.

Eric Bledsoe is averaging 8.7 ppg and 2.9 apg, and I would argue he is having very little impact on his team Win-Loss record.

I do like Ed Davis' trajectory but unless he gains a lot of strength, he'll continue to be a severe liability against power forwards who can post him up.